Conference: The Great Lakes Pact - Two Years On: Issues of Implementaton and Enforcement

The International Humanitarian Law Project at the Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, will host a conference on "The Great Lakes Pact - Two Years On: Issues of Implementation and Enforcement," May 29-30, 2009, in London. (I previously noted the call for papers here.) The conference flyer and registration form are available here.

The 11 member states of the Pact include Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The Pact represents the most comprehensive effort yet by the member states to address the root causes of the conflicts in the Great Lakes region and to lay the foundations for sustainable peace and development.

The focus of the conference will be on issues surrounding implementation and enforcement of the Pact. Confirmed speakers include:Moses Wetang'ula, Kenyan Foreign Minister & ICGLR RIMC Chair; Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, Executive Secretary of ICGLR; Hamuli Baudouin, DRC National Coordinator for ICGLR; Lieutenant Colonel Michael Gibson, Former Military Criminal Law Advisor, MONUC; Stephen Singo, Co-ordinator for the Peace and Security cluster, Great Lakes Secretariat; Pascal Turlan, Office of the Prosecutor, ICC; Isabell Kempt, Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights; Anneke Van Woudenburg, Human Rights Watch, Chaloka Beyani, LSE/Legal Adviser to the ICGLR.